2026-27 Recommended Budget

Your County budget, redesigned for the way residents actually explore.

Turn the budget book into a guided, interactive website: simple explanations first, then drill-down views for funds, departments, performance, and real Focus on Service stories.

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Static Cloudflare-ready PWA
No backend required
Public information only

Resident journey

A budget experience that starts simple and gets deeper only when people want it.

Each step below can be its own public page, but this prototype keeps the experience in one polished demo.

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Start with the big picture

Clear totals, plain-language terms, and clickable charts explain the difference between the full County budget and flexible resources.

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Explore services by priority

Residents can choose public safety, health, housing, infrastructure, economic development, or community vitality.

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Drill down to departments

Each budget page becomes a web page with budget history, major services, staffing, and performance indicators.

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Discover what dollars do

Focus on Service cards become stories that can include photos, videos, maps, timelines, and resident-friendly outcomes.

Budget Atlas

Interactive charts replace static budget tables.

Click a slice to see an explanation, related departments, and a suggested next step. This is intentionally static demo data, but the layout is ready for a future data feed.

Sources

Where the money comes from

Service map

Let residents browse by the question they actually have.

This section shows how a future site could combine County priorities, regions, and service examples into one intuitive explorer.

Budget 101

Selected priority

Public Safety

See law enforcement, fire, emergency response, detention, prosecution, defense, probation, and prevention investments in plain language.

Department explorer

Budget book pages become interactive service profiles.

Search for a department, click a result, then switch between overview, budget history, major services, performance, and Focus on Service.

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Focus on Service

Make the coolest programs clickable.

The budget book already tells strong stories. The website can make them searchable, visual, shareable, and connected to the department budget.

Performance and outcomes

A future phase could pair dollars with results.

The Budget Book includes performance measures. This prototype shows how those could become dashboards without overwhelming residents.

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Service reliability

Illustrative measure: percent of selected service targets on track.

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Project delivery

Illustrative measure: capital projects in planning, design, or construction milestones.

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Community reach

Illustrative measure: programs with public-facing service access information.

ITD presentation notes

This PWA is a safe static concept, but it demonstrates a real product path.

The direct-upload version can be shown immediately. A production version could later be generated from budget data, Open Data, a CMS, or a controlled publishing workflow.

Now

Static prototype

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, manifest, and service worker. No backend. No County network access. Public information only.

Structured budget content

Convert summary tables, department pages, Focus on Service, and performance measures into a data model that generates pages automatically.

Future

Integrated publishing

Connect approved budget data, media assets, maps, accessibility checks, public feedback, and translation workflows.

Prototype controls

Try the page like a resident or evaluator.

Toggle dark mode, search departments, click chart segments, open Focus on Service stories, and resize to mobile.